Canon DSLR using Canon auto focus lens is NOT alt.
Nikon DSLR using Nikon auto focus lens is NOT alt.
Anything else IS alt, including all mirrorless systems.

2. Your entry must have been photographed during April for this run.
3. One entry per user/month.
4. Your entry must contain your top 3 picks from the last competition. You may not vote for your own photo. The top vote gets 3 points, the runner up gets 2 points, and the last vote gets 1 point. Please include a short explanation of the reasons for your top pick.

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Camera body: Sony a850
Lens: Minolta 85/1.4G
Aperture: f2.2
Filters: none
Short note on PP: curves and sharpening in Lightroom
Top vote (3p) + reason: Taylor Sherman: I like the way the numbers and one letter pop.
Runner up vote (2p): carsten: Interesting how that one tree's structure stands out in an extremely detailed scene.
Last vote (1p): Phillip Reeve: Feels like portraiture.
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This shot is from a mid-april three day skiing trek in the mountains Lyngsalpene close to Tromsø, climbing the glacier Koppangsbreen towards the peak Tafeltinden. We had all kinds of weather, this is one of only a few glimpses of sun we had during the three days.

Hopefully the last image with snow from me for some months as summer should be here in a month

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Camera body: 5D
Lens: Samyang 85mm f/1.4
Aperture: f/1.4 or f/2
Filters: None
Short note on PP: B&W conversion, curves, general tweaking etc in LR4
Top vote (3p) + reason: Sebboh - Because it feels like a story in a photo. Great processing too (I'd love to know more about that actually)
Runner up vote (2p): xbarcelo - Nice tones, and a beautifully understated image. It grew on me the more i looked at it
Last vote (1p): Carsten - Just call me "mother", cos it works for me
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Camera body: Sony Nex-7
Lens: Speedbooster + Zeiss Sonnar 85/2.8
Aperture: f/8, I believe
Filters: none
Short note on PP: Some graduation in the sky
Top vote (3p) + reason: Phillip Reeve, A stunningly sharp shot with the last remnants of the prey around his beak.
Runner up vote (2p): philber, I like the simple esthetics here. Composition in blue.
Last vote (1p): HelenaN Because I find it very difficult to take an interesting photograph with snow in it. And this one shines.
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Quick question: Canon DSLR + Canon lens not allowed. Does that only exclude EF-mount lenses? What about using a Canon 5d2 w/ a converted FL 55 f/1.2? That's a lot more "alt" than the vast majority of lenses on this board. I mean, you can't even get that mounted by buying a simple adapter... it requires hacking together a new mount altogether.

justruss wrote:
Quick question: Canon DSLR + Canon lens not allowed. Does that only exclude EF-mount lenses? What about using a Canon 5d2 w/ a converted FL 55 f/1.2? That's a lot more "alt" than the vast majority of lenses on this board. I mean, you can't even get that mounted by buying a simple adapter... it requires hacking together a new mount altogether.

Of course the FL 55 is alt. Edited the rules to say Canon auto focus lens.

philber wrote:
How about saying that lenses/lens mounts that are no longer in production are alt?
So what about Leica M, Nex, Fuji...?
Everything except EF/EF-S-Lens on Eos-camera and AF-lenses and anything younger than 1990 on Nikon F-Mount camera would be my suggestion.